A review by third_bookworm
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang

informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

This was a slog, and not really what I had been hoping for from it. I think it would have benefitted significantly from a more aggressive editor (the extremely long chapter on the history of putting satellites into space was... less than riveting, to say the least). However, I think the main problems I had with it are that I am not the target audience (it was geared at a general audience; I was hoping for a detailed analysis from someone in the field written for others in astrophysics, and instead I got wave-particle duality explained to me like a high schooler.) and that I find Tyson aggravating as a person, so any time his personality or politics showed through in the writing it annoyed me. It wasn't what I hoped for, but I think that's more on me for the expectations I went into it with. 

For all that, there were some genuinely interesting and insightful pieces scattered in.

Also, fairly depressing implications for the ethics of a career in astrophysics.